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by Zeppelin Studio
Schein is a 2D precision side-scrolling puzzle platformer. Use the magic of light to explore hidden worlds, solve challenging puzzles, and defeat deadly beasts in this award-winning atmospheric action-adventure game.
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$4.99Soulless: Ray Of Hope
Oct 18
Both: Precision Platformer · Side Scroller · Sokoban
Soulless: Ray of Hope is a 2D story-driven platformer focused on atmosphere, exploration, and emotional storytelling in a dark, minimalist world.
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-50%$9.99Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus
Jul 17 · Squid Shock Studios, Christopher Stair, Trevor Youngquist
Both: Precision Platformer · Side Scroller · 2D Platformer
Flow gracefully through a colorful, hand-drawn 2.5D action platformer inspired by Japanese folklore. Engage in acrobatic aerial combat, unlock powerful mystical abilities, and explore an interconnected world of myth as you seek to unravel the mysteries of your origin.
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-70%$1.49Night Lights
Jun 7
Both: Precision Platformer · Side Scroller · Sokoban
Night Lights is a relaxing puzzle platformer where you manipulate light and shadow to guide a small robot through a calm, atmospheric world.
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$10.99Will You Snail?
Mar 9 · Jonas Tyroller
Both: Difficult · Precision Platformer · Platformer
A unique platformer where an evil AI predicts your movement. Dodge AI-spawned traps, solve optional puzzles and uncover the dark secrets of the simulation. Now with a level editor and infinite community-made content!
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$14.99Vibrant Venture
Jul 24 · Semag Games
Both: Platformer · Side Scroller · 2D Platformer
Vibrant Venture is a singleplayer 2D adventure platformer game featuring a quirky cast of characters! The game features four playable characters with multiple unique abilities that can be combined for extremely versatile, fluid and fun movement!
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$4.99Celadon
Sep 12 · Karpopper
Both: Precision Platformer · Difficult · Puzzle Platformer
A tightly designed, precision platformer with a large variety of mechanics. Jump, dash and teleport your way past spikes to get to the end. Use multiple move sets over seven chapters. For players of all skill levels to enjoy!
Precision PlatformerDifficultPuzzle Platformer2D PlatformerPixel GraphicsSingleplayerIndiePlatformerPuzzle2D
$7.99Super Win the Game
Oct 1 · Minor Key Games
Both: Side Scroller · Precision Platformer · Difficult
Throw on your nostalgia goggles and travel back in time with Super Win the Game, a retro-core explosion of exploration and platforming action!!
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Jun 9 · Cosmic Adventure Squad
Both: 2D Platformer · Side Scroller · Puzzle Platformer
Venture deep into the Cavern of Longing in this short-yet-challenging physics platformer. Plunge your sword deep into the dragon's heart! How deep is your resolve?
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Jul 26 · JOZGamer, Hatus Quemuel
Both: Precision Platformer · Difficult · Platformer
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$4.99Escape This
May 4 · Four Winged Studio
Both: Precision Platformer · Difficult · Puzzle Platformer
Escape This is a precision 3d platformer. Complete each of the random levels without touching any of the red blocks. It is possible to make your own levels
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$6.99The Witch & The 66 Mushrooms
Nov 7 · Gotcha Gotcha Games, KADOKAWA
Both: Side Scroller · Platformer · Silent Protagonist
An all-new Metroidvania-style game developed using Pixel Game Maker MV! Make use of a variety of weapons as you traverse sprawling stages on a mission to take back your brother's body from the witch who stole it!
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$4.99Laughing to Die
Apr 10 · 大吉利制作组
Both: Puzzle · Platformer · 2D Platformer
囡囡回乡参加奶奶一百岁的丧礼。家人们都说老人百岁去世是喜丧,因此家里正大摆宴席招待亲友。独自一人的囡囡看到一个酷似奶奶的身影之后随之而误入某个奇怪的房间,在寻找离开的道路同时,囡囡也逐渐从这些房间的故事中知道了奶奶的来历,更从中得知在喜丧背后所隐藏的秘密。
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$24.99ANIMAL WELL
May 9 · Billy Basso
Both: Puzzle · Puzzle Platformer · Platformer
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
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$19.99Timespinner
Sep 25 · Lunar Ray Games
Both: Side Scroller · 2D Platformer · Platformer
Travel back in time to change fate itself, in this beautifully crafted story-driven adventure, inspired by classic 90s action-platformers. Join timekeeper Lunais on her quest for revenge against the empire that killed her family, using time-bending powers to explore a vast, connected world.
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$4.99Jaded
Jan 24 · ShellSnore Games
Both: Precision Platformer · 2D Platformer · Platformer
A fast-paced platformer where you can slash, dash, and control time. Slow down the frenzy of combat and find the right moment to strike! Then, aim the 360-degree dash and zoom away at lightning speed! Master your abilities to maneuver around obstacles and vaporize foes before they can touch you.
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$4.99The Shadowland
Jul 17 · Bloodcraft Dev
Both: Puzzle Platformer · 2D Platformer · Difficult
EN Little Reaper finds himself lost in grim otherworld. Help him find the way back through treacherous obstacles and threatening foes.Prepare to rely heavily on your reflexes to complete 30+ levels spanning through 6 locations, and beat 3 unique bosses. RU Маленький жнец потерялся в мрачной потустороннем мире.
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$5.99Squishy the Suicidal Pig
Oct 23 · Tomi Maarela, Elias Viglione
Both: Platformer · Puzzle · Puzzle Platformer
From the creators of Hero Siege, Squishy the Suicidal Pig is a puzzle platformer with a counterintuitive goal where you play as Squishy, a pig wearing a yellow sweater who's trying to reach his parents in animal heaven by completing his deal with the devil.You asked for a challenge, now you have it!
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$19.99Pid
Oct 31 · Might and Delight
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Platformer · Puzzle
You are stranded on a strange and peculiar planet. It’s time to embark on your journey and find your way home! Explore a gravity defying and challenging platformer with striking visuals and a captivating story that transports you to a world beyond ours.
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$14.99Toki Tori 2+
Jul 11 · Two Tribes
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Side Scroller · Platformer
An epic open-world puzzle Metroidbrainia that respects your intelligence! Knowledge is your superpower. Use creatures as tools to determine your own path.
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$11.99Eternal Hope
Aug 20 · Doublehit Games
Both: Platformer · Puzzle Platformer · Puzzle
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Nov 15 · spleeN
Both: Precision Platformer · Puzzle · Platformer
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$7.99Super Puzzle Platformer Deluxe
May 24 · Andrew Morrish
Both: Platformer · Puzzle · Puzzle Platformer
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-60%$7.99Moonscars
Sep 27 · Black Mermaid
Both: Action-Adventure · 2D Platformer · Platformer
Push the limits of your combat skills, and master new abilities to progress through an unforgiving nonlinear 2D world. Face off against the relentless darkness that seeks to destroy you. In Moonscars, every death is a lesson learnt—and as you overcome each challenge, new truths will be revealed.
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$4.99Disconnect 2
Jul 18 · J_C
Both: Precision Platformer · Platformer · Puzzle Platformer
I made a game about my dog.
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$4.99Bionic Momentum
Jul 17 · Magnumizer Game Studio
Both: 2D Platformer · Precision Platformer · Puzzle Platformer
A hardcore old school 2D physics-based sci-fi action puzzle platformer, with an emphasis on retaining speed and momentum
2D PlatformerActionPrecision PlatformerPuzzle PlatformerPhysicsOld SchoolSingleplayerLinearChoices MatterMultiple Endings
$19.99Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
Apr 27 · Moon Studios GmbH
Both: Platformer · Difficult
“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning Action-Platformer crafted by Moon Studios.
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$19.99Blue Fire
Feb 4 · Robi Studios
Both: Precision Platformer · Platformer · Action-Adventure
Explore the fallen world of Penumbra in this precision 3D metroidvania platformer. Slash fierce enemies, conquer deadly traps, uncover ancient temples, and master fast, fluid movement across challenging platforming gauntlets in your quest to restore a fallen kingdom.
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$21.99Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power
Aug 20 · Frozenbyte
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Action-Adventure · Puzzle
The Trine heroes in full 3D. Explore a fairytale world of breathtaking sceneries and enchanting creatures, solving puzzles as wizard, knight and thief, alone or together in online or local co-op.
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$1.99Lonely Trip
Feb 5 · Fish Chain Games
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Platformer · Puzzle
Lonely Trip is a 2D puzzle platformer. Unique puzzles, beautiful visuals and capturing music, experience all these by completing this lonely adventure.
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Aug 4 · Cyan Worlds, Inc.
Both: Puzzle · Difficult
Released in 1997 as the original sequel to Myst, one of the best-selling puzzle adventure games of all time. Prepare to enter a world "torn asunder" by timeless, unresolved conflicts -- a world of incomparable beauty, intrigue, and betrayal.
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$4.99The Narrator Is a DICK
Jun 14 · Adam DeLease
Both: Precision Platformer · Difficult · Platformer
In this narrated platformer there's one man who's always out to get you... The Narrator. He's a real jerk, but with determination and a lot of skill MAYBE you can make it through this crazy adventure.
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$4.99Albert and Otto
Oct 28 · K Bros Games
Both: Puzzle · Platformer · Difficult
Created by solo developer Nikola Kostic - Traverse a haunting world set in 1939 Germany in search of a mysterious girl with rabbit ears. Utilize a little bunny in creative ways to solve puzzles. Levitate sheep, use them as torches or wolf bait and make your way through a dangerous land.
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$2.99Divinest Light
Nov 11 · Magic Pie
Both: Puzzle · Platformer · 2D Platformer
Divinest Light is an atmospheric puzzle-platformer set in the mysterious and dark world with a unique shadow-avoidance mechanic.
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$0.99Squirbs
Jan 6 · Team Indev
Both: Platformer · Difficult · Puzzle
Squirbs is a challenging puzzle-platformer in which you control two cute blue Squirbs simultaneously with one set of controls. Looking for an awesomely difficult game? That's Squirbs.
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$3.99Face It - A game to fight inner demons
Jun 9 · Tlön Studios, Ilex Games
Both: Puzzle · Puzzle Platformer
Carefuly crafted puzzles in a challenging 3D plaformer take the player on a surrealistic journey through a maze of feelings. In Face It, abstract concepts are shaped into gameplay: darker emotions are monsters and traps, while brighter concepts are the powers you need to beat the levels.
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$4.99Candle
Nov 11 · Teku Studios
Both: Puzzle · Puzzle Platformer · Platformer
Candle is an adventure with challenging puzzles. Play as Teku, a young novice on a dangerous journey to rescue his tribe's shaman from the evil tribe of the Wakcha. But the way is littered with sinister traps and difficult obstacles.
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$19.99Creaks
Jul 22 · Amanita Design
Both: Puzzle · Puzzle Platformer
The ground starts shaking, light bulbs are breaking - and something rather unusual is happening right behind the walls of your very room. Equipped with nothing but wit and courage, you slowly descend into a world inhabited by avian folk and seemingly deadly furniture monsters.
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Nov 27 · Gamagora ICOM
Both: Puzzle · Platformer · Puzzle Platformer
From the Shadows is a cooperative puzzle platformer game where players have to work their way through a mysterious mansion by resolving puzzles that revolve around the mechanics of light and shadow.
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$4.99INK
Aug 5 · ZackBellGames
Both: Platformer · Difficult · Puzzle Platformer
INK is a fast-paced platformer about using colorful paint to uncover your surroundings. Defeat all enemies in the room and reach the goal! However, the terrain is invisible, so you need to discover the terrain by physically bumping into it, by performing a double jump or by, well, dying.
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Aug 17 · Navegante
Both: Action-Adventure · Puzzle Platformer · Puzzle
Greak: Memories of Azur is a single-player puzzle platformer adventure. Azur is under threat from an enemy attack who have control of strange creatures infecting the land. Take on the role of three siblings: Greak, Adara and Raydel and utilize their unique abilities to escape the invasion together.
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$1.994ife
Jul 9 · Fatih Karaatli, Kemalcan Ustabasi
Both: Puzzle · Precision Platformer · Platformer
You have to overcome the challenging tasks you have to do in order to return from the parallel universe you are sent to to your own universe. But remember this: Returning home will not be as easy as you think. Find the portals and collect ancient coins.
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$2.99Vox Populi Vox Dei 2
Mar 17 · Great Cogs
Both: Platformer · Difficult · Side Scroller
Your adventure is not over yet, the real enemy has appeared. Dr. Wolf has taken your lovely girl and you won't stop until you find her. To accomplish your mission, you will pass through many difficult challenges, putting your own life at risk.
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$9.99Qbeh-1: The Atlas Cube
May 15 · Liquid Flower
Both: Puzzle · Puzzle Platformer · Platformer
A serene first-person puzzle platformer set across strikingly beautiful worlds. Place and remove cubes to solve handcrafted puzzles, discover hidden secrets, and lose yourself in an atmosphere unlike anything else. Includes a full level editor and Steam Workshop support.
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$9.99Choice Chamber
Jul 16 · Studio Bean
Both: 2D Platformer · Difficult · Platformer
Choice Chamber is a real-time, crowdsourced, procedurally generated game where your fate is in everyone else's hands.
Action Roguelike2D PlatformerHack and SlashRoguelitePerma DeathDifficultPlatformerRoguelikeFemale ProtagonistRPG👍 123
$6.99A Walk in the Dark
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Both: Platformer · Difficult
In this action platformer you play as a cat, Bast, running through a dark fantasy world. You’ll be running, jumping and sliding with smooth and precise controls designed to make you feel like a cat. But it wont be easy. In the dark you never know what lies in the shadows.
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$19.99Snake Pass
Mar 28 · Sumo Digital
Both: Puzzle Platformer · Difficult
Slither, coil and climb your way to the top of Haven Tor in this one of a kind physics based, puzzle platform adventure from award winning independent studio Sumo Digital!
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